Welcome to Prose Society — the book club, community, and weekly culture podcast you didn't know you needed. In this debut episode, Eli opens up about why it took months to bring the show back (hint: business negotiations), what to expect each month (Culture Catch-Ups, book reviews, and monthly guest interviews), and a little bit about herself — from her Jersey roots to her writing career. Then she dives into a spicy culture catch-up: her unpopular Love Island opinions, three podcast pet peeves, and her take on the Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce Madison Square Garden wedding discourse. Grab your book club pick and settle in — this is just the beginning.

New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe now to join the group chat. See you between the pages! 

Keep up to date! Follow our socials: @Eli.Rallo | @ProseSocietyPodcast






 

Welcome to Prose Society &mdash; the book club, community, and weekly culture podcast you didn't know you needed. In this debut episode, Eli opens up about why it took months to bring the show back (hint: business negotiations), what to expect each month (Culture Catch-Ups, book reviews, and monthly guest interviews), and a little bit about herself &mdash; from her Jersey roots to her writing career. Then she dives into a spicy culture catch-up: her unpopular Love Island opinions, three podcast pet peeves, and her take on the Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce Madison Square Garden wedding discourse. Grab your book club pick and settle in &mdash; this is just the beginning.
New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe now to join the group chat. See you between the pages!&nbsp;
Keep up to date! Follow our socials: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/eli.rallo">@Eli.Rallo</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/prosesocietypodcast">@ProseSocietyPodcast</a>
 
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If your bookshelf and your For You Page are equally important to your personality… welcome home. This is Prose Society — a weekly podcast by Eli Rallo that’s part book club, part group chat for thought daughters, pop culture scholars, and anyone who thinks Pride and Prejudice and Love Island deserve the same level of discourse. See you between the pages!

If your bookshelf and your For You Page are equally important to your personality&hellip; welcome home. This is Prose Society &mdash; a weekly podcast by Eli Rallo that&rsquo;s part book club, part group chat for thought daughters, pop culture scholars, and anyone who thinks Pride and Prejudice&nbsp;and Love Island deserve the same level of discourse. See you between the pages!

Prose Society with Eli Rallo

Welcome to Prose Society: Why I Took a Break, Love Island Drama & What to Expect Each Week

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Actress, screenwriter, and playwright Zoe Kazan joins this episode of Prose Society to discuss her Netflix adaptation of John Steinbeck's East of Eden — a project six years in the making. Zoe shares her approach to adaptation, why she centered the anti-hero Cathy Ames (played by Florence Pugh), and what it meant to carry forward a story her own grandfather adapted for the screen in 1955. She also opens up about the personal identities — mother, sister, daughter — that shaped her writing, the casting process behind the series' star-studded ensemble, and why she believes adaptation is an advanced form of reading. Plus, rapid-fire recommendations spanning Toni Morrison to Stephen King.

Follow Zoe! @Zoe.Kazan

New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe now to join the group chat. See you between the pages! 

Keep up to date! Follow our socials: @Eli.Rallo | @ProseSocietyPodcast

Actress, screenwriter, and playwright Zoe Kazan joins this episode of Prose Society to discuss her Netflix adaptation of John Steinbeck's East of Eden &mdash; a project six years in the making. Zoe shares her approach to adaptation, why she centered the anti-hero Cathy Ames (played by Florence Pugh), and what it meant to carry forward a story her own grandfather adapted for the screen in 1955. She also opens up about the personal identities &mdash; mother, sister, daughter &mdash; that shaped her writing, the casting process behind the series' star-studded ensemble, and why she believes adaptation is an advanced form of reading. Plus, rapid-fire recommendations spanning Toni Morrison to Stephen King.
Follow Zoe! <a href="https://www.instagram.com/zoe.kazan">@Zoe.Kazan</a>
New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe now to join the group chat. See you between the pages!&nbsp;
Keep up to date! Follow our socials: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/eli.rallo">@Eli.Rallo</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/prosesocietypodcast">@ProseSocietyPodcast</a>

Zoe Kazan on Adapting East of Eden, Family Legacy, and the Art of Letting Go

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This week's a long one. We're recapping the iHeartRadio Music Festival in Vegas, the VMAs, Dancing With the Stars, and The Traitors — plus a deep dive into Taylor Swift's Showgirl Encore with a track-by-track review and thoughts on the fandom discourse. We're talking Martha Stewart at 85, the foldable iPhone, generative AI, Stella Lefty's hater-fueled career, TikTok's hyper-local For You Page, and the iced coffee interview debate that turned into a generational war (justice for millennials!). Plus: October's book club pick Honey by Imani Thompson, what I'm reading now, a voter registration reminder, and my Sweetie & Lover of the Week.

New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe now to join the group chat. See you between the pages! 

Keep up to date! Follow our socials: @Eli.Rallo | @ProseSocietyPodcast

This week's a long one. We're recapping the iHeartRadio Music Festival in Vegas, the VMAs, Dancing With the Stars, and The Traitors &mdash; plus a deep dive into Taylor Swift's Showgirl Encore with a track-by-track review and thoughts on the fandom discourse. We're talking Martha Stewart at 85, the foldable iPhone, generative AI, Stella Lefty's hater-fueled career, TikTok's hyper-local For You Page, and the iced coffee interview debate that turned into a generational war (justice for millennials!). Plus: October's book club pick Honey by Imani Thompson, what I'm reading now,&nbsp;a voter registration reminder, and my Sweetie &amp; Lover of the Week.
New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe now to join the group chat. See you between the pages!&nbsp;
Keep up to date! Follow our socials: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/eli.rallo">@Eli.Rallo</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/prosesocietypodcast">@ProseSocietyPodcast</a>

Culture Catch-Up: Justice for Millennials!

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This week we're reviewing Waist Deep, the debut novel by Danish author Linea Maja Ernst that became a smash hit across Scandinavia. Five university friends and their partners spend seven days at a lake house in Denmark, and old feelings of love and lust resurface as they confront the big question: who makes the rules for how we live our lives, and which is the right way?

We break down every character — Sylvia, the insufferable-but-relatable protagonist who can't figure out what she wants; Charlie, the perfect partner she can't bring herself to love; Quince, the charming bachelor who's okay with not knowing; Karen (who is essentially Dua Lipa); Gri, the mom friend questioning her identity beyond motherhood; and Adam, the straight guy who just chose and got on with it.

Plus: how the author dared to call Sally Rooney's sex scenes "beige" and then wrote an entire novel by hand in response, why this book would make a perfect Broadway play, the privilege of being able to ask existential questions when your basic needs are met, and why "Getting married is no big deal" is one of the best closing lines in recent literary fiction.

New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe now to join the group chat. See you between the pages! 

Keep up to date! Follow our socials: @Eli.Rallo | @ProseSocietyPodcast

This week we're reviewing Waist Deep, the debut novel by Danish author Linea Maja Ernst that became a smash hit across Scandinavia. Five university friends and their partners spend seven days at a lake house in Denmark, and old feelings of love and lust resurface as they confront the big question: who makes the rules for how we live our lives, and which is the right way?
We break down every character &mdash; Sylvia, the insufferable-but-relatable protagonist who can't figure out what she wants; Charlie, the perfect partner she can't bring herself to love; Quince, the charming bachelor who's okay with not knowing; Karen (who is essentially Dua Lipa); Gri, the mom friend questioning her identity beyond motherhood; and Adam, the straight guy who just chose and got on with it.
Plus: how the author dared to call Sally Rooney's sex scenes "beige" and then wrote an entire novel by hand in response, why this book would make a perfect Broadway play, the privilege of being able to ask existential questions when your basic needs are met, and why "Getting married is no big deal" is one of the best closing lines in recent literary fiction.
New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe now to join the group chat. See you between the pages!&nbsp;
Keep up to date! Follow our socials: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/eli.rallo">@Eli.Rallo</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/prosesocietypodcast">@ProseSocietyPodcast</a>

Book Review: Waist Deep by Linea Maja Ernst — Ensemble Casts, Existential Dread, and the Question of How We're Supposed to Live

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Welcome to Prose Society: Why I Took a Break, Love Island Drama & What to Expect Each Week

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